He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He's Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them
The online art portfolio site Cara, created for artists aiming to keep their work out of AI training datasets, is experiencing ongoing attacks by trolls who grab and post its content online. At the same time, an individual who formerly gathered the site's images to train AI is currently co-developing a tool intended to assist these artists. Cara is an art portfolio service tailored for creators seeking to prevent their work from being ingested into artificial intelligence models.
Key Takeaways
- However, the platform is facing serious disruptions as malicious trolls seize hosted content and re-publish it elsewhere online without permission.
Amid these platform breaches, a contributor who previously harvested all of Cara's artwork to train AI systems is now collaborating on a tool designed to support the affected artists.
- This situation illustrates the complex dynamics and changing relationships between AI data harvesters and digital content creators.
Cara serves creators who prefer that their artwork remain excluded from artificial intelligence training.
- A person who previously scraped all of the platform's art for AI is now co-developing a tool to help creators.
- Online trolls have attacked Cara by capturing and distributing its user data.

Cara is an art portfolio service tailored for creators seeking to prevent their work from being ingested into artificial intelligence models. However, the platform is facing serious disruptions as malicious trolls seize hosted content and re-publish it elsewhere online without permission. Amid these platform breaches, a contributor who previously harvested all of Cara's artwork to train AI systems is now collaborating on a tool designed to support the affected artists.
This situation illustrates the complex dynamics and changing relationships between AI data harvesters and digital content creators. Cara serves creators who prefer that their artwork remain excluded from artificial intelligence training. Online trolls have attacked Cara by capturing and distributing its user data.
For more details please read the original article at Wired AI.
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